Avant-garde postwar Japanese artists. Works from the artists’ 18-year engagement with the Gutai Art Association, along with latter-day pieces created in the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s. The DMA is now the official Gutai epicenter of the US!

3. Lee Mullican: Paintings 1956-1977 Texas Gallery, Houston January 17 – February 21, 2015 Tapestry-like abstract works by California painter and member of the Dynaton group, Lee Mulican. Part of Texas Gallery’s ongoing series of interesting mid-century painters from California you wonder why you’ve never heard of.

4. Audubon’s Beasts Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth January 15 – August 2, 2015 Hand-painted non-bird prints by famed scientist and artist John James Audubon (1785–1851)–some of his greatest depictions of North America’s four-legged animals in their natural habitats, from swamps to savannahs.

5. Jeff Williams: is what is UT Courtyard Gallery 1900 University Avenue, Austin February 12 – May 2 Opening: February 12, 5–7 pm Williams’ experiments in transformation over time, including structures industrial in their materials yet organic in their destruction.